The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-01-29
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Pie ana one church for every $500.
AT Louisville, Nathan Bloom, a dca
merchant, had funeral mile long.
THERE is proposition to change Inaus
uration day from March to April 30.
THE Connecticut General Assembly re
elected General Hawley U. s. Senator.
SMOKED red, whatever that may be,
named among the new fashionable colors
TEXAS wants Congress to pass Law
against dealing in grain and cotton futures
KANSAS has over $4,000 of school fund
idle in the treasury awaiting investment
1T now seems probable that the first o
April will see every army in Europe in tn
field.
EX-SENATOR JOSEPH f. McDoNALD's Law
practice is said TO be worth near 500 90
per year.
SOCIALISTS in America are sending none,
to Germany to help their brethren out a
the polls.
In Neuvo Leon, Mex, q woman recent,
gave birth to five children, three boys ant
two girls.
Tiny toboggans now "dangle from the
bangle" worn by the progressive girl Of
the period.
ToBoGGAN note paper and envelopes have
appeared in time to be mixed up with the
craze of the hour.
In Upper Alton, ILL.,, there are 1,T marri
ageable young women and only eighteen
eligible single men.
FoUR prosperous citizens of New York
earn their livelihood as doctors for the lap
dogs of rich women.
They have been experimenting with
juries of six men in Michigan, and the peo.
pie seem to be satisfied.
"MoNTANA turnips" is the name by
which 5000 or s7OO Jumps of bullion are
known in that Territory
THE new aqueduct in New York has thus
far caused the slaughter of sixty-one men
and the serious injury of 12S others.
JUDGE STANLEY MATTHEWS house in Wash
ington has fine music room, containing o
'ipe organ and concert grand piano.
QUEEN VICTORIA never eats any but stale
bread. This, however, is believed to be
more matter of taste than necessity.
No doubt anxiety to see herself in becom-
ing mourning led Miss Van Zandt, of Chi
cago, to desire to wed Anarchist Spies.
The heating of cars by steam from the
locomotive boiler has been tried with sue
cess on several New England railroads.
FRENCH ladies are wearing dresses of
plaid wool this winter. The latest fancy
is to have all the plaids of the skirt bias
PETER b. SWEENEY, the "brains" of the
Tweed ring, to-day walks the streets of
New York unknown, unnoticed, stout and
shabby.
AN Irish landlord with rent roll of
S,OOO per annum has been obliged to go to
the poor house because he can't collect any
of his rents.
THE Galveston Ne,rs wants passenger
cars $50 constructed that they will fall to
pieces when they turn over, so that people
can escape"
CONGRESSMAN GRAIN, of Texas, Tom
Ochiltree's successor, is the only native
born Texan in the delegation from the
Lone Star State.
The Oldest surviving holder of diploma
from Dartmouth is Abraham 4. Lowe, NJ.
d., of Boston, who was born in 1876 and
was graduated in 1916.
In the northwest provinces of India, in
cluding Oudi, there are 44,0OO,O 900 Hindoos
and Mohammedans, crowded into an area
OF JOG, lob square miles.
ALMOST every government in Europe be. |
leves that war will be precipitated when
"the flowers that bloom in the springn
make their appearance.
New JERSEY education statistics show
thirty-eight thousand children, between |
the ages of seven and twelve, did not at |
end school last season.
OscEoLA, q town on the west side of the |
Cascades, in Washington Territory, boasts
OF schoolmistress of eighteen summers
and weight of $50 pounds.
The remains Of California's noted bene-
factor, Lick, have been deposited in
niche in the foundation on which the great
Lick telescope is to be placed.
CHICAGO invested go, ,OOO, 600 in building
enterprises in 1886. 1t is estimated that
but for the strikes the amount invested
would have reached $50, 100000
The situation in Europe forcibly reminds
one of lot of irate old women jawing
over back fence, each one afraid to
throw the first pan of hot dishwater.
The New York Star says that Mrs. Lang
try is engaged to be married to Mr.. Geb-
hard, and that the divorce from her first
husband is all that delays the ceremony.
JOSEPH w. DREXEL, who has retired
from business and lives comfortably on
his accumulated fortune in New York
began LIE on salary of one dollar
week.
JOHN Coon, of Brooklyn, who worked in
cordage factory ten or twelve years age
AT $3.50 day, has since perfected inycn
tions which pay him an annual ROYALTY of
el50, 600 "a
OVER 293,OOO cubic yards of limestone and
slate rock has fallen out of the bank of Nj
agara river, near Horseshoe Falls, on
nc Canadian side. The break has con-
'iderably changed the appearance of the
,ank.
some friends of Princeton College have
provided funds to send an expedition from
MS country, in charge Of Prof. Charles A.
oung, to observe the eclipse of August 10
n Russia.
MARK TWAIN said, recently, when asked
whether it was true that he proposed to
tart newspaper in Hartford: "Oh, nolI
nall never start newspaper SO long as
an buy three for less than it costs to have
~ boots BACKED"
The Queen OF Greece takes her airinps
carriage for which she paid 5000. II
'as built for the triumphal entry of the &
omte de Chambord into Paris, which new.
looh place, owing to circumstances
YER which the Comte had no control. G
OSTRICH farming has been introduced in
idia, South Australia, the River Platte
nd New Zealand, besides California. and =
&c much priced feathers of these birds are
kelly to become cheap. ~ y
The representatives Of the Catawba In.
ans IN South Carolina make the grave ii
'arge that these Indians have been grad. a
MY swindled out OF their land, until only
acres remain to them of the l44.OOO